Answering YOUR Questions to Celebrate 50,000 Subscribers (Thank You)

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📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature/about ———————————— 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA24... (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 🏫 https://hardcore-university.teachable... (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses) ✍🏼 https://benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website ———————————— Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b ☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD ⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3 🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 ❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA 🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3 🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c ———————————— 0:00 thank you for reading along 0:30 how to read to improve our lives? 4:30 what books have you reread the most? 5:07 most difficult books you’ve read? 6:00 your 5 top quotes/ideas from your reading? 13:00 are you reading McCarthy’s ‘The Passenger’? 14:14 what 3 books would you give to Shakespeare? 16:20 who is your favourite character, and why? 17:39 what are you favourite spiritual works? 19:31 appreciating a really lovely message 20:04 lesser known 19th century female novelists? 22:28 can you talk about reading with the seasons? 24:27 if you could read a book again for the first time? 24:44 balancing science and the humanities? 28:55 appreciating another lovely comment 29:08 how does the reading experience differ as we age? 31:52 objectively best work in the English language? 32:49 how will you answer all of these questions? 33:10 which canonical book did you not finish? 33:47 how does music complement your reading? 39:09 modern books you’ve added to your canon? 40:51 introducing literary themes to young readers? 42:09 how to read the eastern canon? 46:16 how to read Finnegans Wake? 48:00 your thoughts on fantasy? 48:55 favourite stories that aren’t books? 49:45 favourite films adaptations of books? 51:50 best William Golding novels? 52:03 discerning subjective vs objective worth? 54:37 thoughts on Barthes’ death of the author? 56:32 how do you respond to snobbery? 57:52 tips for finding advanced essay topics? 59:31 do you like Sir Walter Scott? 59:57 recommended non-fiction literary works? 1:00:30 any plans for author biographies? 1:01:22 is dramaturgy alive? And favourite playwrights? 1:03:25 have you learnt a language to read its literature? 1:04:37 how do you feel about translations? 1:05:20 have we exhausted Shakespeare analysis? 1:05:58 tips for managing test-taking anxiety? 1:07:47 Is there a poem that has impacted your life? 1:08:03 how does running relate to reading? 1:10:47 what is your favourite poem? 1:11:17 any plans to write your own book? 1:11:25 best time to join the book club? 1:11:59 what George Eliot have you read? 1:12:17 favourite contemporary writers? 1:12:30 what would you like to contribute to criticism? 1:12:39 why do you love Moby Dick? 1:13:57 your go-to stories when the world gets you down? 1:14:16 recommended novel for rural male students? 1:14:59 a heartfelt thank you to you all